Re: The removal of function environments: An opportunity for optimization?

[Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@...>]

	Hi Henk

> On 25 May 2010 14:22, Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> >        Sure.  However, the "body" of a function is a chunk isn't it?
> > I thought it should have a different (local) _ENV like the above code?
>
> The body of a function is a block, not a chunk. As Roberto said (and
> as hinted in the manual), a chunk is a compilation unit.
	I checked the "Complete Syntax of Lua" (chapter 9 of 5.2 docs):

	function ::= function funcbody
	funcbody ::= '(' [parlist] ')' block end
	block ::= chunk

	Maybe I'm missing something...
		Tomás